Medieval legends about travel, eternal wanderers and the appearance of inhabitants of other worlds. Translation from Latin and Euro-French, literary translation of Irish legends about sailors by N. Gorelov. This book contains stories about distant times and unknown countries, which became the progenitors of novels in the genre “ fantasy”, which captured the imagination of modern readers. Acquaintance with these legends opens up to us the world of the boundless fantasy of a person of the Middle Ages and lifts the veil over the mystery of the origin of many stories about wanderings in unknown corners of the Universe. Generations that grew up on “The Lord of the Rings”, binge-watched “Star Wars”, played “Dune” and thought about how “It’s hard to be a god”…